Climate twins of Elizabeth, LA

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Elizabeth's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.

Side-by-side: Elizabeth vs its climate twin

Top match: Learned, MS

Month Elizabeth Learned
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.2°F 38.1°F 5.73 in 58.6°F 35.2°F 5.86 in
February 65.9°F 41.8°F 4.56 in 63.0°F 38.5°F 5.52 in
March 72.8°F 48.2°F 4.62 in 70.2°F 45.8°F 5.65 in
April 78.9°F 54.4°F 6.13 in 77.0°F 52.5°F 5.77 in
May 84.7°F 63.0°F 5.04 in 84.4°F 61.5°F 4.45 in
June 90.4°F 69.5°F 5.34 in 90.6°F 68.9°F 4.82 in
July 92.3°F 71.9°F 5.05 in 93.3°F 71.3°F 5.18 in
August 93.0°F 71.3°F 3.95 in 93.3°F 70.0°F 4.70 in
September 89.5°F 66.0°F 5.40 in 89.3°F 64.2°F 4.09 in
October 79.7°F 54.9°F 5.16 in 80.5°F 52.9°F 3.99 in
November 70.3°F 46.0°F 5.83 in 68.6°F 41.7°F 4.51 in
December 62.8°F 40.3°F 5.30 in 60.9°F 38.4°F 5.61 in

How this is computed

Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →